Was this the place where the Belgian teacher Jules Cherpion killed his lover? Was the walking stick with the initials JC here?
The Witches' Dance derives its name from the clouds of mist that rise from the water on cold nights. Everything indicates that it is a mud pit.
On the sign in front of the Witches' Dance, there is a poem that I have tried to translate:
Murder on the Duivelsberg
A youth of 18 years,
Let his love be known to a girl,
but when he robbed her of her honor,
left her sitting there with a sigh.
In the morning he came to enlighten her,
saw the tears of grief moistening her,
she told him that he saw what he was doing to her. What I wear is your own flesh and blood
He immediately took her outside to roam,
into the green forest where the birds whistle,
and brought her to a quiet area.
sweetly he said, her resting place is here
He grabbed her at the same time, by the water,
and gave her seven stabs with his knife.
She fell to the ground, fell at his feet now,
cried Oh, God sees what love can do
See how the murderer comes crawling there,
after he stabbed his girl with the knife,
he shall suffer the same fate.
there on the scaffold his life shall end
anonymous, attempted translation by Markus Dederichs